Mate Ujevic
Mate Ujević (born July 13, 1901 in Krivodol near Imotski , Dalmatia , † January 7, 1967 in Zagreb ) was a Croatian writer and founder and editor of the first Croatian encyclopedia .
Life
Mate Ujević was born in Krivodol near Imotski in Dalmatia . His education took place in the Franciscan monastery in Sinj . In childhood Ujević was shaped by the Franciscans (OFM) and remained a professing Roman Catholic Christian throughout his life . As a high school student, he and his schoolmate, who later became Croatian historian , publicist and essayist Bogdan Radica , published the magazine Renesansa (Renaissance).
After graduating from high school in Split in 1922 , Ujević studied literature , history and art in Zagreb and Ljubljana . During this time he published the magazine Luč (candlelight). In 1926 he became supplent and later professor at the Archbishop's Classical Gymnasium in Zagreb.
In 1928 Mate Ujević published his novel Mladost Tome Ivića (The youth of Thomas Ivić). In 1929 Ujević took over the management of the literary-cultural section of the weekly newspaper Hrvatska straža (Croatian Watch).
In 1932 Mate Ujević published an overview of Croatian literature ( Hrvatska književnost ), in 1933 a study on the Croatian Greek Catholic priest and writer Jovan Hranilović . In 1935 Mate Ujević received his doctorate in the field of literary history .
At the end of the 1930s, Ujević began work on the "Croatian Encyclopedia" ( Hrvatska enciklopedija ) in consultation with the majority owner of the Tipografija publishing house , D. Schulhof . In 1938 Ujević published the Hrvatska narodna pjesmarica (Croatian National Songbook). In 1939, the authorities of the Banovina Hrvatska (Banschaft Croatia) founded a consortium to publish the “Croatian Encyclopedia”, and Ujević became its editor-in-chief. In 1940 a sample sheet of the encyclopedia was presented, and in 1941 the first of a total of five volumes of the encyclopedia was published.
In 1941 Ujević's literary school book Plodovi srca i um (fruits of the heart and mind) came out. From 1943, as director of the Croatian Bibliographical Publishing Institute , which was established in the so-called Independent State of Croatia from the consortium for the publication of the “Croatian Encyclopedia”, Mate Ujević worked on four more volumes of the encyclopedia and on bibliographies .
During the time of fascism and the German occupation of Croatia, he saved the befriended Jewish encyclopaedist Manko Berman and two Jewish sisters from deportation to the Jasenovac concentration camp . For this he was awarded the title Righteous Among the Nations by the Israeli Yad Vashem Memorial . In 1945 the Croatian Bibliographical Publishing Institute was renamed the Croatian Publishing Institute ( Nakladni zavod Hrvatske ). At that time, Mate Ujević worked briefly as economic director and state expert on questions in the area of border drawing and then returned to lexicography . Among other things, he was editor-in-chief of the Pomorski leksikon (Seelexikon) of the Adria Institute at JAZU .
When the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute was founded in 1950 , Ujević took over the position of Deputy Head of the Institute at the invitation of Miroslav Krleža . There Ujević published, among other things, the Pomorska enciklopedija (Maritime Encyclopedia) and a retrospective bibliography of Yugoslavian periodicals up to 1945. In 1955 he was editor of the publication of Misli i poglede (Thoughts and Reflections) by Antun Gustav Matoš by the Yugoslav Lexicographical Institute.
In 1965 Mate Ujević retired. He died on January 7, 1967 in Zagreb.
Since 1996 the Croatian Lexicographical Institute has awarded the “Mate Ujević” prize for outstanding work in the field of lexicography and encyclopedia .
Web links
- Chronology on the website of the Croatian Lexicographical Institute Miroslav Krleža (Croatian)
- Short biography (Croatian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.croatianhistory.net/etf/jews.html
- ↑ Mate Ujević on the website of Yad Vashem (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ujević, mate |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Croatian writer and publisher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 13, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Krivodol near Imotski , Dalmatia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 7th January 1967 |
| Place of death | Zagreb |